‘THE Martin Short Show has everything going for it except a New York station.

But that slight inconvenience isn’t stopping the show from moving full-steam-ahead toward a September launch.

Until now, very little has been known about what ”The Martin Short Show” would be like. Now, however, the show is taking shape as a comedy-variety show featuring celebrity guests, a band and an in-house troupe of sketch comics.

Producers are on the verge of signing a musical director and two head writers, and a studio has been found in CBS’s Television City complex in Hollywood, the same building that houses ”The Price Is Right,” ”The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” and other shows.

The producers are also looking for performers to work with Short. They’ll be scouting comedy troupes in Chicago, Toronto and New York, starting next Monday.

CBS-owned King World, the show’s syndicator, expects to launch next fall on stations reaching 80 percent of the nation’s TV homes, including Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia. The syndicator declared the show a ”go” in January, but that hasn’t stopped some TV industry skeptics from wondering whether ”The Martin Short Show” would ever see the light of day.

The skeptics were silenced somewhat last month when King World announced the hiring of an executive producer, Stuart Krasnow, who had left Mother Love’s ”Forgive Or Forget” program. Short is also listed as an executive producer on his show, along with Hollywood dealmaker Bernie Brillstein.

Questions remain, however, including whether ”The Martin Short Show” will work best in late-night or daytime, and whether the producers can come up with enough material for their manic host to sustain a sketch-comedy show for five days a week. That’s something no one has ever done.

As for a New York station, Ch.2 still looks like the frontrunner, especially since ”The Howie Mandel Show” won’t be back next season.

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